In this role, you will be given the opportunity to build upon existing capabilities as well as broaden your functional expertise as you drive our brands through all consumer touchpoints. Examples of projects may include development of brand identity, packaging and portfolio systems, 360 brand campaigns, social media strategy, promotions, and immersive brand activations, with solutions that span the gamut from print, packaging, social/digital, licensing, environmental and new media.

Responsibilities

Design Project Management:

Partner across disciplines and external suppliers to ensure design assets are developed and delivered with quality, value, and on-time.
Inform and align stakeholders throughout the creative process, regularly reviewing the status of projects with appropriate leadership to verify that project expectations are met.

Brand Design Development:

Support the visual identity for the Gatorade portfolio, working in collaboration with the North America Gatorade Sr. Design Director and other design leaders across brand, product, packaging, equipment, marketing, and advertising.
Generate creative design proposals (visions, scenarios, concepts) in order to visualize the desired output and share it with internal and external team members.
Participate in research activities and effectively translate customer needs into actionable design strategy (must be able to execute those requirements into design solutions). Help drive to final design recommendations, decisions, and design approval to enable artwork execution/production phases. Ensure a thorough consideration of all project variables and that the final solution will perform as planned.

Design Project Management:

Responsible for collaborating with cross-functional partners and external suppliers to ensure design assets are developed and delivered with quality, value, and efficiency. Energizes and leads both the internal team and external design resources from idea phase to commercialization. Regularly reviews the status of projects with appropriate leadership to ensure that expectations are met.

External Design Network:

Supports the Design & Innovation organization in building and cultivating a robust external design network.

Qualifications

Bachelor's Degree in Design required with minimum 7+ years of hands-on brand and packaging/graphic design experience.
Should have full-time agency side and or client-side experience.
Advanced experience with Adobe Creative Suite software.
Must be willing and able to travel 15% of the time

Preferred Qualifications:

Strong conceptual design skills, package design and design strategy experience.
360 brand design experience (i.e., print, packaging, digital, environmental, experiential).
Extraordinary design taste and expertise with an excellent sense of design trends.
Illustration skills highly preferred.
Systems design thinker (packaging architecture and visual identity systems).
Ability to work in an agile, dynamic work environment with a start-up mentality (comfortable with risk and uncertainty).
Strong stakeholder relationship management - effectively influence at all levels in the organization, as well as across regions and functions.
Effectively communicates (verbally and written) with internal and external business partners.
Collaborative and works well with others to deliver results; keep others informed to avoid unnecessary surprises.
Ability to multitask. Excellent time and project management skills to be able to meet project deadlines.